Fine Books News: Recent
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
Going under the hammer this week at University Archives is a ticket stub for Charles Dickens's…
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A $5m gift from historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown in addition to her professional papers will reinforce the Penn Libraries’ position as a leader for research in medieval studies. The bequest from Brown, who died in August aged 92, will establish an archive preserving the professional papers of…
Romance, once relegated to the back of the bookstore, is having a moment, which many attribute to the desire for a story with a happy ending during a time of global turmoil (see our article on Collecting Romance Fiction). It is now the highest-grossing genre in fiction and, in most stores, the…
A complete collection of the books published by Kelmscott Press during its seven-year existence will be offered at Bonhams in New York on December 17.
Featuring letters, diaries, and photographs, the Library of Congress has released an online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Elena Ganzevoort, honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors aged 30 or younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
The British Library has acquired a series of letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the archive of novelist and playwright John Galsworthy.
An autograph manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's journal leads Part II of The William A. Strutz Library rare books auction at Heritage Auctions on December 11.The one-page fragment from his entry for October 28, 1852, is written in dark brown ink and comes from a passage in the journal…
RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale ending December 11 features nearly 900 items with a special focus on science and technology. Leading the sale is a one-page handwritten theological manuscript by Isaac Newton which focuses on the Nicene Creed and his controversial views on the…
What a week coming up in the auction rooms!
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney was a dedicated sender of Christmas cards and for more than 30 years produced his own.
